Marta Balaga As the industry starts paying closer attention to Finnish films and talent – following the Cannes success of Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No.
6” and Zaida Bergroth’s crowd-pleasing “Tove” – Finnish TV drama is next in line, argued the participants of the Berlinale Series Market Focus on Finland drama showcase.
Kuosmanen premiered short-form series “Zone B,” which he co-created, at the Red Sea International Film Festival in December.“We have seen a rise in Finnish stories, because as content creators and writers, we got to be a little bit braver,” said Minna Panjanen, now behind “Next of Kin”. “The truth is, everyone needs content right now.
It’s almost a mathematical impossibility to say what would be the next big thing – we all saw it with ‘Squid Game’. But we need to be braver in order to stand out.” In “Next of Kin”, set in the near future – the series is produced by Bufo for Elisa Viihde – a young woman discovers that her DNA sample was stolen from the Nordic Biobank.
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